Vladimir Nabokov

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What else exists in the world besides chess?

He glanced at the chessboard and his brain wilted from hitherto
unprecedented weariness. But the chessmen were pitiless, they held and
absorbed him. There was horror in this, but in this also was the sole
harmony, for what else exists in the world besides chess?

—Luzhin. *The Defense*. Vladimir Nabokov.

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